I’m reducing my .ca portfolio and selling some 3 letter and 3 number names at very attractive prices.

Having some of these in your portfolio is a must for any Canadian domainer. The LLL.ca were all registered last year and since then the prices have been growing steadily. Canadian domains can only be registered by Canadian residents.

First person to post sold gets the name/s, payment expected within 24 hours.

See the 3 letter/3 number list below: (more…)

SS.tv appears listed in sedo recent sales for $21500.

Reminds about the story with SS.com, which was previously reported to have been sold for a hefty amount, but the sale didn’t go through.

Either way it’s a pretty decent amount for a .tv domain.

There were also some nice hyphenated sales:

sugar-bear.com $788
ice-rink.com $840
organic-spices.com $825
venetian-blinds.com $900

Here is the recent registrations stats for End of June 2008, or the latest data available. Top 3 tlds, .com, .de and .cn make up over 100 million domains, .net pushed to the 4th place.

We can see an enormous growth in .cn registrations, but this is mostly due their extremely low price. Many sites offer Chinese domains for just $0.13, yes, 13 cents only!

.co.uk is now slightly above .org and with UK pound going strong unlike the US dollar, the recent week’s sale of Phones.co.uk for $345k and LegalJobs.co.uk for $40k in addition to the previously reported sale of Cruises.co.uk for $1.1. Million comes to show how big the .co.uk tld is.

Apotheke.eu (”pharmacy” in German) sold for $81K last week and as the EU expands and grows tighter we can expect the .eu names to grow as well.

.asia is the new kid on the block and while many consider this new extension completely useless, there was one good sale in dnjournal last week: LasVegas.asia for $30k.

The Montenegro Times reports:

30,000 applications have arrived to date for the registration of Montenegrin Internet domain .ME, the domain company have announced.

The company announced that the next round of registration, functioning on a first-come, first-serve basis, would start on July 17, during which all available domains would be awarded to the first bidders that meet required conditions.

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Myid published a list of .ca domain for the next auction, which starts in about 8 days. Quite an impressive one this time:

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1.     666.ca ($1751 - $2500)
2.     JFK.ca ($1001 - $1750)
3.     SNN.ca ($251 - $500)
4.     TNN.ca ($251 - $500)
5.     War.ca ($1751 - $2500)

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The recent dnjournal report featured many high value .ca domains sales from myid auctions.

CV.ca $54,977
Income.ca $26,242
Diploma.ca $17,999
Pharmacies.ca $15,663
Eyeglasses.ca $11,410
ZZ.ca $9,959
STD.ca $4,149
LoansCanada.ca $3,112
MontrealMortgages.ca $2,624
AccountingJobs.ca $2,438
Enjoy.ca $1,817
VancouverTravel.ca $1,816
WebTemplates.ca $1,559
QuebecHomes.ca $1,556 (more…)

Dot Asia released a press release about their successful auction

.Asia Auctions Fetches Over US$3 Million

.Asia Hot-or-Not Contest First Weekly Prize Winning Domain: resorts.asia
GMA2008.Asia Attracts Millions of Hits, Drives .Asia Adoption

Hong Kong, 16 June 2008 – DotAsia Organisation announced today total registration for .Asia
domains are expected to exceed a quarter of a million by the end of the first quarter after its public
launch . Proceeds from the .Asia Sunrise and Landrush auctions have already exceeded US$3M
and rising, demonstrating strong demand and growth value for .Asia domains. (more…)

DomainPulse reports:

China (.cn) has overtaken Germany (.de) to become the world’s largest country code for domain names. With an average of around 400,000 to 500,000 .cn domain names registered each month it would be safe to assume there are more than 12,300,000 names registered compared to 12,098,279 .de names registered at the time of writing.

The two ccTLDs (country code top level domains) are much larger than any of their competitors with the next ccTLD being .uk (United Kingdom) with 6,880,775 and close to three million .nl (Netherlands) domain names.

Of all TLDs, ccTLDs and gTLDs, only .com is larger than .cn and .de, followed by .net, while .org and .uk are roughly equal in fifth position.

The success of Germany’s country code has been due to few restrictions on the eligibility of registrants for .de domain names and a low price. Although France has a similar population, there are currently only 1,153,637 registrations.

These extraordinary registration rates are a result of extremely low reg fees in .cn domains. Regular domainers from all over the world can buy .cn domains for just $0.13 at a variety of sites. A predeposit is usually required.

Bigger resellers can get the domains for even cheaper paying just pennies on the dollar.

My guess is once the reg fees rise there registration counts for .cn will fall dramatically, unless we start seeing some high sales to support the tld growth

Some great domains are up for grabs at myid .ca auctions. Also a few more high sales from previous auction.

Gamble.ca, VP.ca, InternetAccess.ca, Bond.ca, Diplomas.ca, WebsiteHosting.ca, Macau.ca, and Bass.ca are some of the domains Offered.

More than 105 high quality dot ca (.ca) domains are being auctioned at MyID.ca including fabulous rare and previously unavailable gems that were registered as far back as 8 years ago in 2000.

Some premium domains on this auction list include Gamble.ca (Ultimate web destination for gambling and gaming), VP.ca (Unbeatable high profile two letter corporate domain), Diplomas.ca (Ideal for online education) and the creme-de-la-creme of financial domains, BOND.ca. (more…)

Here are the results from recent .asia auctions:

TOP 10 AUCTIONS
sex.asia $83,334
sexshop.asia $53,607
sushi.asia $22,500
cooking.asia $21,500
ace.asia $20,501
water.asia $19,388
outdoor.asia $19,019
promotion.asia $17,600
arts.asia $15,500
sales.asia $13,500

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